not sure about all this Redrock stuff. For one, it’s expensive (compared to the cost of the DSLRs, if not to pro film equipment). For two, it adds a lot of bulk. But I do wish I could afford all of it nonetheless.

An essential series of articles about the growing gulf between rich and poor in the US. Income disparity is now worse than it was in 1915, and the US has lower class mobility than the UK. “Income distribution in the United States is more unequal than in Guyana, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and roughly on par with Uruguay, Argentina, and Ecuador. Income inequality is actually declining in Latin America even as it continues to increase in the United States. Economically speaking, the richest nation on earth is starting to resemble a banana republic.”

It’s a strange time when a boot company covers an issue better than any media source. A three part doc where Johnny Knoxville tours some sites in Detroit, showing the hopeful creative development going on as well as the fabulous ruins.

I may have linked to this before, Hunter S. Thompson’s rant to a studio exec about the stalled Rum Diary film. So many great lines: “We are not even spinning our wheels aggresivly” … “I’d much rather deal with a Live asshole than a Dead worm with No Light in his Eyes” … “I’m in the mood to chop yr. fucking hands off.”

My father died two weeks ago, the funeral was last week. This week I am back at work and trying to adjust to normal life, which right now, quite honestly, feels like trying to get interested in meaningless busywork. Twitter, facebook, this site, they all seem a bit silly to me. But I know I want to get out of that headspace as it’s all stuff I liked to do before this went down. Right?

So, I’ll ease back into things. I’m away in Windsor for the weekend shooting some stuff and hopefully having fun. Then I have next week off for TIFF, which theoretically should also be fun, and is (in theory) a good excuse for some film reviews up in this bitch.